Israeli police have detained at least eight members of a racist anti-Arab group allegedly involved in an attack on a bilingual school in Jerusalem al-Quds.
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"Eight suspects who belong to Lehava were arrested and detained for questioning on suspicion of offenses involving incitement to carry out acts of violence and terror for racist motives," Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said on Sunday.
The suspects were detained in the cities of Herzliya and Rishon LeZion Netivot, as well as in East Jerusalem al-Quds and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
On December 16, Israeli police detained 10 members of the racist group. The leader of the anti-Arab group, Bentzi Gopstein, was also among the detainees.
On November 29, Samri said a classroom was set on fire in the attack on the bilingual school.
The arsonists wrote graffiti on the walls of the school, reading, “Death to Arabs.”
The attack, according to Samri, appeared to be a so-called “price tag” attack.
Price tag attacks are acts of vandalism and violence against Palestinians and their property as well as Islamic holy sites by Israeli settlers.
The settlers, mostly armed, regularly attack Palestinian villages and farms and set fire to their mosques, olive groves and other properties in the West Bank under the so-called “price tag” policy. However, Tel Aviv rarely detains the assailants.
On November 12, Israeli settlers launched an arson attack on a Palestinian mosque in the village of al-Mughayir, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, torching part of the holy place.
In mid-October, Israeli settlers set ablaze part of the Abu Baker al-Saddiq Mosque, which is located in the village of Aqraba in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers often enjoy support of the army troops in their acts of violence against Palestinians. /SR
